Background
he was born on February 5, 1913, at Lower Buchanan in Grand Bassa County, grandson of Sir Samuel George Harmon, the Secretary to the Treasury.
he was born on February 5, 1913, at Lower Buchanan in Grand Bassa County, grandson of Sir Samuel George Harmon, the Secretary to the Treasury.
Educated in Grand Bassa then at Cuttington College, Cape Palmas in Maryland County. In 1928 he entered the Treasury, as a cadet, under his grandfather, before going to the College of West Africa, leaving in August 1932 for Howard University in the USA, where he took a BSc in Economics and Business Administration.
On his return home in 1936, he rejoined the Treasury department as a clerk and rose to the position of Acting Paymaster, the Acting Collector of Customs in Marshall Port, before being transferred to Monrovia as Chief of the Division of Statistics. In 1938 he went back into the Bureau of Revenues, rising to Inspector in 1941, and in 1944 becoming the first Social Secretary President W. V. S. Tubman.
In 1949 he resigned to study law Harvard Law School and returned t0 Liberia in 1951 to become executive secretary of the Joint Liberian United States Commission for Economic Development, which he held until 1971.